security subsystem · Supported

Maintainers

• M Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
• M James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
• M "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>

Paths

• F include/linux/lsm/
• F include/linux/lsm_audit.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
• F include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
• F include/linux/security.h
• F include/uapi/linux/lsm.h
• F security/
• F tools/testing/selftests/lsm/
• F rust/kernel/security.rs
• X security/selinux/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v3 0/3] Bring includes in linux/kmod.h up to date
  2026-09-11 14:47 · 1 reply in 7d · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM2d [PATCH v3 00/15] sched: introduce for_each_process_rculock and for_each_thread_rculock
  2026-09-11 08:02 · 1 reply in 7d · Ye Liu <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH v2 0/8] sched: introduce for_each_process_rculock and for_each_thread_rculock
  2026-09-07 08:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Ye Liu <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Justin Suess <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Günther Noack <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-11

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-pm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d [PATCH v3 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-09-11 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• WARM2d REVIEWED: 13 (11M) [PATCH v3 15/15] security/landlock: convert thread iterator to for_each_thread_rculock
  2026-09-11 · Ye Liu <hidden>
• WARM3d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v2 8/8] security/landlock: convert thread iterator to for_each_thread_rculock
  2026-09-07 · Ye Liu <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE65d [PATCH 1/2] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-08 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
• STALE94d [PATCH 08/11] params: Convert generic kernel_param_ops .get helpers to seq_buf
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH 09/11] treewide: Convert custom kernel_param_ops .get callbacks to seq_buf via cocci
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE94d [PATCH 04/11] treewide: Convert struct kernel_param_ops initializers to DEFINE_KERNEL_PARAM_OPS
  2026-05-21 · Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
• STALE150d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• STALE823d [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()
  2024-06-03 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE975d [PATCH 3/3] treewide: Update LLVM Bugzilla links
  2024-01-09 · Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
• STALE1313d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v5 06/11] security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
  2022-11-11 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1313d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH v5 05/11] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2022-11-11 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1313d [PATCH v5 04/11] security: keys: trusted: Include TPM2 creation data
  2022-11-11 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1389d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 05/11] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2022-11-03 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1389d [PATCH v4 06/11] security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
  2022-11-03 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1389d [PATCH v4 04/11] security: keys: trusted: Include TPM2 creation data
  2022-11-03 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1420d [PATCH v3 06/11] security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
  2022-09-27 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1420d [PATCH v3 05/11] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2022-09-27 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1420d [PATCH v3 04/11] security: keys: trusted: Include TPM2 creation data
  2022-09-27 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1450d [PATCH v2 05/10] security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
  2022-08-23 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1450d [PATCH v2 04/10] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2022-08-23 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1450d [PATCH v2 03/10] security: keys: trusted: Include TPM2 creation data
  2022-08-23 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1446d [PATCH 05/10] security: keys: trusted: Verify creation data
  2022-05-04 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1446d [PATCH 04/10] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2022-05-04 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1446d [PATCH 03/10] security: keys: trusted: Parse out individual components of the key blob
  2022-05-04 · Evan Green <hidden>
• STALE1815d [PATCH v4] lockdown,selinux: fix wrong subject in some SELinux lockdown checks
  2021-09-13 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• STALE1838d [PATCH v3] lockdown,selinux: fix wrong subject in some SELinux lockdown checks
  2021-06-16 · Ondrej Mosnacek <hidden>
• STALE1956d [PATCH 5/9] security: keys: trusted: Allow storage of PCR values in creation data
  2021-02-20 · Matthew Garrett <hidden>
• STALE1956d [PATCH 4/9] security: keys: trusted: Store the handle of a loaded key
  2021-02-20 · Matthew Garrett <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE150d [PATCH 20/61] apparmor: Prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL over manual NULL check
  2026-03-10 · Philipp Hahn <hidden>
• COLD48d [PATCH v2 1/3] umh, treewide: Explicitly include linux/umh.h where needed
  2026-07-21 · Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>